The champions of flatness,
stand alongside the rotating lunacy,
assert to protect the earth’s edges
from the domination of roundness.
They congregate paradoxically in rings,
proclaim that the curvature is a delusion,
gravity is a hearsay in critical conspiracy
of circular minds caged within a sphere.
The horizon stretches along horizontal line,
marks the perimeter of the planar world,
beyond which the clouds disappear into abyss,
the basin holding the contained oceans.
At the frozen fringes of the flat atlas
lies the great ring of the ice walls,
the boundary keeping the world from falling
into the celestial silent nothingness.
ENGRAVISTA
en relief
intaglio planar
grounded
spur-like aquinted
grained
messaging
of defined
contour
en register
meshed
toothed
burnished
etched
dry painted
playground
in stippled
precision
stopped out
imperious
masks
dense& painterly
serigraphs
In the long journey of the stream on the lap of planar plateau,
through the draping expanse of the emerald forest it slithers,
rolls over the broken contours of lowland as the surge askew
in the cascade of ribboned flow like fluidized swan feathers.
It collapses on the cleaved rocky floor, clad in reclined ferns,
as the gushing exuberance of splattered pearls of jubilation,
expressed in monotone splintering the silence of verdance,
the air in the tranquil valley ripples with the echo of elation.
Gliding with crystal waters of the bubbling champagne flow,
it dances on wave of land in dale of flowers in a looping line,
around the balanced boulders sparkling with malachite glow,
amid the patina of foliage glistened by the drizzle of sunshine.
The seamless shimmering sky on the sheathe of green canopy,
illumines the mystique shroud of diaphanous mist rising slow,
lifts the dark curtain for the dawn to rise from the horizon fiery,
in a trance I’m lured by enticing nature’s light and sound show.
Written : October 18, 2020
December 17, 2022
Contest : 2022 Poetry Marathon Mile 23
Sponsored by : Mark Toney
Long journey of the stream on the lap of planar plateau,
through the dark density of the forest cover it slithers,
rolls over the broken contour of land at the fall askew.
Vibrant wall of ribboned flow of fluidized swan feathers,
collapses on the cleaved rocky ravine, clad in reclined ferns,
as the gushing exuberance of splattered pearls of jubilation,
expressed in monotone splintering the silence of verdance.
The air of the tranquil valley ripples with the echo of elation,
gliding with the waters of the bubbling champagne flow,
dancing in the rhythm of esoteric ecstasy in split course
around the mossy boulders strewn with malachite glow,
amidst patina of foliage lent by drizzle from light source,
the sky, hidden behind sprawling screen of green canopy,
illumines mystique mist of diaphanous shroud rising slow,
lifts the curtain of gloom, glistening the darkness within me,
makes me revel enthralled nature’s light and sound show.
Written : September 14, 2019
February 14, 2020
Contest : Strand Select O, Any Form, Any Theme
Sponsor : Brian Strand
having a pleasant and distinctive smell.
"a massage with aromatic oils"
synonyms:
fragrant · scented · sweet-scented · sweet-smelling · perfumed · [more]
chemistry
(of an organic compound) containing a planar unsaturated ring of atoms that is stabilized by an interaction of the bonds forming the ring. Such compounds are typified by benzene and its derivatives.Compare with alicyclic.
Instead of us raising a lot of static,
God said we would try new tactic;
Poems review;
Great we knew;
Add appeal with things aromatic.
Jim Horn
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